Drawing Feathers: Perfect for Mark Making
By Paula Briggs
Our Drawing Feathers workshop with children aged 6 to 10 was a great opportunity for the children to put to use all the mark making skills they had been learning over the past few weeks, and I was amazed by the quality of the drawings – some were really sophisticated in their use of materials, line and colour.
The image below of a Peacock Feather drawn by John Ruskin inspired the workshop – I used to visit the Ruskin Gallery in Sheffield. His drawn feather is small but it draws you in.


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Krisite
April 14, 2012 @ 10:52 pm
This is a beautiful exercise. Thank you for sharing.
Sally
September 18, 2014 @ 8:38 am
What beautiful and interesting work, and how well these six year olds have done ( and you with them! ) thank you for sharing
claire b
December 10, 2017 @ 12:16 pm
love the look of this activity…trying it tomorrow!
Paula Briggs, AccessArt
December 10, 2017 @ 12:28 pm
Good luck Claire! Let us know how you get on!